Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.

It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow.

Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged.

The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.

Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.

It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.